Volume 11, No. 1
Cover: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gives a salute for the camera in London in 1943.
Early Winter 2012
WWII History
Established in the summer of 1939, Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell’s Middle East Command encompassed nine countries and parts of two continents, an area of 1,700 miles by 2,000 miles. Read more
Early Winter 2012
WWII History
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had made the promise to Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, and Admiral Sir John Tovey of the Royal Navy had to keep it: to sail three convoys loaded with critical supplies from Britain to Russia every two months, with 25 to 35 ships in each convoy. Read more
Early Winter 2012
WWII History
On the morning of June 6, 1944, the 2nd Ranger Battalion, commanded by Lt. Col. James Earl Rudder, began its ascent of a sheer 100-foot precipice called Pointe du Hoc. Read more
Early Winter 2012
WWII History
History was made in the Mediterranean Sea on the night of Monday, November 11, 1940, when the Italian Navy’s battle fleet was devastated at Taranto, off the Ionian coast of southern Italy. Read more
Early Winter 2012
WWII History
“I am not a collector of deserts,” Mussolini declared regarding his imperial ambitions. Instead, he would be a loser of them, most publicly in North Africa and, in one of World War II’s least-known campaigns, in East Africa. Read more
Early Winter 2012
WWII History, Editorial
Seventy years after the attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into World War II, the nation is once again at war. Read more
Early Winter 2012
WWII History, Dispatches
Dear Editor:
I would like to provide some needed clarification of some points in “Divine Wind Over Okinawa” by Kelly Bell (September 2011). Read more
Early Winter 2012
WWII History, Ordnance
The men of Lieutenant Edwin K. Smith’s antitank platoon, 2nd Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division peered over the gun shields of their 37mm cannon at the column of Vichy French armored cars approaching their roadblock. Read more
Early Winter 2012
WWII History, Profiles
Stanislaw Sosabowski started his military career in the anti-Hapsburg Polish underground movement in 1907, served in the Austrian Army in World War I, and rose to the command of the Polish Parachute Brigade in World War II. Read more
Early Winter 2012
WWII History, Top Secret
On June 24, 1937, German Minister of War Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg issued a directive marked Top Secret with only four copies to be made, the first for himself and the other three for the heads of the armed forces of the Third Reich. Read more
Early Winter 2012
WWII History, Insight
In March 1940, Benito Mussolini met with Adolf Hitler near the Brenner Pass on the border between Austria and Italy. Read more
Early Winter 2012
WWII History
Before World War II, the peaceful, serene Belgian village of Malmedy, located in the eastern portion of the country in the province of Liege, was a resort. Read more
Early Winter 2012
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
As quite a few of you are no doubt aware, war and board games are a natural fit. Read more
